Five marble heads and a statue of Zeus dating to the third century A.D. were unearthed at the site of an ancient villa in southeastern Rome. Archaeologists think the statues represent members of the imperial dynasty of Septimius Severus.   

The Guardian reports that since the fall of Tunisia’s president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian archaeologists are able to talk openly about the ancient site of Carthage, which has been damaged by development in recent years.  

According to Living in Peru, the Nazca lines were not harmed by recent flooding of the Panamerican Highway.  

The Brooklyn Museum will give thousands of pre-Columbian artifacts to Costa Rica.  

The original lightkeeper’s house on Georgia’s Sapelo Island has been found by a team of archaeologists and volunteers. The house was built in the early nineteenth century, and collapsed during a storm in 1902.  

Archaeological investigation of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn has located several possible shipwrecks.  

Tasmania’s aboriginal community is planning a protest aimed at protecting an archaeological site uncovered at a bypass construction project. “We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the roads and we will fight them on our heritage sites,” said Michael Mansell of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.  

Here’s more information on the clash between Thai and Cambodian troops at the 1,000-year-old Preah Vihear temple.

German authorities returned a 4,500-year-old ax head recovered from an antiques dealer to Iraq this week.

An international team of scientists has met near the Ngorongoro crater to witness the excavation of the 3.6 million-year-old footprints discovered in the Laetoli riverbed in the 1970s. “After that the experts may decide on the best way they should be preserved either by relocating them elsewhere or leaving them at the same site,” said Donatus Kamamba, director of Antiquities for Tanzania.  

Dale Fuchs of The Independent has summarized the ongoing story of the legal dispute for 600,000 gold and silver coins between the salvage company Odyssey Marine Exploration and the government of Spain. Odyssey recovered the coins from a shipwreck it has dubbed the Black Swan, but Spain claims the wreck is the Spanish frigate Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, which was sunk by the British in 1804.  

Here’s an update on the state of rock art and archaeological sites in Somaliland. “At the moment we do not do any excavations because we are not able to host objects,” said Sada Mire, the country’s first archaeologist.